Gifted, Talented & Creative Adults need:

When the intellectual, creative, social and emotional needs of Gifted, Talented & Creative Adults are denied or are not identified, understood or adequately met, gifted adults are at high risk for a variety of personal, relationship and career challenges, problems and difficulties.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.                  Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.                              Helen Keller

When the daily lives and relationships of gifted adults do not include enough opportunities for the utilization of their multidimensional gifts, talents and abilities, Gifted, Talented & Creative Adults will experience a variety of ongoing personal, relationship and career challenges, problems and difficulties.

When the conditions listed above do not exist, gifted adults will also suffer greatly.  They will most likely experience high levels of stress, anxiety, agitation, depression and depletion. Major bouts of depression and suicidal thoughts and feelings are also not uncommon.

Helping professionals who are not informed about giftedness and the specialized needs and experience of the gifted can make, and have made, difficult and challenging situations evenmore stressful for gifted adults. 

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Because the developmental trajectory of gifted and creative adults follows a different pattern than that which occurs in the general population therapists, coaches and helping professionals need specialized learning and training to adequately meet the needs of gifted adults who seek out their help and expertise.

A leaders job is to help people have a vision of their potential.                                                  John Porter

When Gifted, Talented & Creative Adults receive advice and services that are appropriate for the general population, their condition and symptoms worsen, they do not improve and oftentimes they will be blamed or blame themselves for their worsening condition or lack of improvement.

Advanced and asynchronous development, overexcitabilities and multipotentiality all require specialized knowledge, interaction and intervention for a successful outcome.

The greatest compliment that was ever paid to me was when someone asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.                                 Henry David Thoreau

It is important for gifted and creative adults to be supported and helped by coaches, therapists and others who are genuinely knowledgeable about giftedness and how to interact with gifted people or by those who are willing to learn.

It is also important that the professional working with a gifted person be in the same IQ range because every 10 to 15 points is a different world. If the range is more than
30 points, it will be difficult, if not impossible, to share the same perceptual and processing perspective and experience—this will then create even more problems and difficulties.

When gifted, talented and creative adults are involved intellectually, emotionally, or artistically with others who think and act as they do, have a safe and understanding environment in which they can fully be themselves, and have supportive connections their sense of well-being, happiness and self esteem increase--so does their creativity and productivity.

Gifted talented and creative adults and others need to know and understand that unless gifted adults can relate to, believe in or love the activities they are engaged in, they will

Gifted, talented and creative adults are a precious resource and need to learn about themselves and their specialized needs and requirements—and find ways to fulfill them adequately.

I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.                                      Frances Willard

There are many ways gifted and creative adults can learn about meeting their needs, psychotherapy, coaching, reading, gifted groups and classes, surfing the net and many others. However, without the right education, help and support in this area many gifted, talented and creative adults will continue to struggle and suffer needlessly.

Gifted, Talented & Creative Adults need to identify, understand and meet their intellectual, creative, social and emotional needs—and the world will be a better and much happier place for all.

Imagine, for a moment, a world where Gifted, Talented & Creative Adults and their specialized needs are understood, respected, valued and included.

That’s a world I’m looking forward to. How about you?

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Giftedness is Heart & Soul
Annemarie Roeper
The traditional model of education tends to look at human beings as basically driven by cognition. It focuses more on that which is testable, on that which can be learned and reproduced. It sees the human being primarily as rational and logical. It sees education as a linear process leading to achievement. It sees giftedness as high achievement and the highly gifted as the highest achievers.

An alternative model of education called, "Self Actualization and Interdependence" (SAI), sees education as a global, all-encompassing process of growth. It sees giftedness in an emotional context in which the cognitive is included. This perspective changes every aspect of education including the goal of education, assessment, curriculum and community structure, and is reflected in the view of the highly gifted. ………….. More

The Writing Problems of Visual Thinkers
Gerald Grow
Visual thinkers have difficulty organizing expository prose because their preferred mode of thought is fundamentally different from the organization of expository prose. Prose is organized by story, focus, sequence, drama, and analysis -- none of which is native to the visual thinker. The writing of a visual thinker is like a map of all the possibilities; a verbal thinker writes like a guided tour … More

Popular Views of the Profoundly Gifted
One of the questions that has engaged me lately is that of the popular perception of the super-bright.....More

Be Yourself, Get on With It
Steve Rapson
There are four elements to a singer/songwriter's act: Songwriting, Singing, Playing, & Everything Else. You know what the first three are. Everything Else is what most performers neglect. It's part of your act that can make up for shortfalls in the other three. Everything Else is what an audience sees and hears the moment you come in to view or are announced. It is your gait as you walk to the stage, how you carry yourself, where you look, who you look at, the expression on your face. The ease, or lack thereof, with which you.....More

 

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